Foreign newsreels (1936-1937)

Pole vaulting.

Ski jumping.

Swimmers jumping from a cliff into the sea.

A speedboat on a course, a slalom skier during a descent from a mountain.

Water racing competitions on speedboats, iceboats, and yachts.

Diving into the water with somersaults in the air.

Spanish bullfight.

A woman at a handloom.

Peasants in an Asian country pull a wooden plow while plowing.

Women in mourning during a funeral.

German actress Marlene Dietrich gives an interview after arriving in New York.

Marlene Dietrich drinks wine while sitting in a chair.

Models demonstrate women's swimsuits on the beach.

Models parade in swimsuits.

British female soldiers in formation.

A female unit begins to march.

Chiang Kai-shek returns greetings during a ceremonial event in China.

Chinese faces.

Chiang Kai-shek and his wife climb the stairs.

Chiang Kai-shek addresses a rally.

Eleanor Roosevelt's face.

Marie Curie conducts experiments in the laboratory.

Marie Curie stands at the entrance to her house in 1934, leaning on the railing.

A male beauty contest, contestants show off their muscles, and the faces of female spectators.

Fights in mixed martial arts in the ring.

A view and panorama of a Popular Front rally in Paris in 1936 (above), Léon Blum speaks from the podium.

A hot air balloon with Blum's portrait rises into the air.

A jump from a parachute tower at an amusement park in Paris.

The opening ceremony at the Trocadéro of the 1937 Paris International Exhibition.

A passenger ship carrying the exhibition's management sails along the Seine toward the USSR pavilion, and the "Worker and Kolkhoz Woman" sculpture on the banks of the Seine.

A view of the top of the German pavilion and the "Worker and Kolkhoz Woman" sculpture.

Tourists sailing by on a boat.

A dancers' troop performing at a New York City music hall.

General Franco greets passing Falangists during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. Victims of the bombing of Madrid and other cities in Republican Spain.

Troops marching along the streets of a city.

A ceremonial event and Nazi rally in Berlin.

A timpanist rides horseback and beats a drum as members of the Italian delegation pass.

A panorama of a mass rally in Berlin (from above).

Hitler delivers a speech.

Mussolini delivers a speech from a balcony in Rome during a rally of fascist Blackshirts.

Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie and his entourage on a palace balcony during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War in 1937. The troops of the Emperor of Ethiopia in the square in front of the palace and during formation.

Panorama of the Blackshirt rally in Rome.

Mussolini in a Blackshirt uniform.

A young Blackshirt.

Hitler speaks from the podium at a ceremony marking the opening of the Winter Charity Campaign of the German People for the 1936-1937 season.

The interior of the palace during the rally, with Goering among those present.

Hitler delivers a speech, views of the rally.

Hitler finishes his speech, leaves the podium, and the participants of the event give Hitler a standing ovation.

Hitler and the leaders of the Third Reich sing the anthem, raising their arms in the Nazi salute.

Hitler and Mussolini walk along the red carpet to the podium during the night rally in Nuremberg in September 1937. Columns of stormtroopers enter the stadium field in Nuremberg.

Mussolini listens to Hitler's explanation.

Columns of naval personnel with flaming torches march along the stadium paths.

SS units march past.

Participants in the ceremonial event line up on the stadium field, holding flaming torches.

Naval personnel with flaming torches stand in formation, their hats removed.

SS members in dress uniform stand in formation, their helmets removed.

Panorama of the naval personnel formation (from above).

The face of an SS man.

The face of a naval personnel.

A searchlight beam.

A flaming flame in the stadium bowl, an honor guard of SS soldiers on both sides of the bowl.

The naval personnel put on their hats.

A ceremonial formation of SS troops (panorama).

View of the stadium in Nuremberg during the ceremonial night event.

Naval personnel in formation, rifles at the ready.

Faces of naval personnel, SS men, views of the stadium field.

A flaming flame in the bowl.

Parade of Italian legionnaires.

A general delivers a speech to the legionnaires in praise of the Duce.

Applauding rally participants (above).

Troops embarking on a transport ship.

A passenger ship at sea, seascapes.

Japanese troops landing on the Chinese coast during the fighting in 1937. Map of Eurasia.

Map of the area around Beijing, showing the advance of Japanese troops (animated).

Japanese troops on the beach after landing.

Japanese infantry engaged in combat.

Surrender and disarmament of Chinese soldiers.